At 76, Pradip Burman is an entrepreneur who takes the environment and philanthropy very seriously. He shares what makes him go on.

Born in a family of innovators and philanthropists, Pradip Burman, the great grandson of Dabur founder Dr SK Burman, embodies the same qualities.

Burman is currently the chairman of Sanat Products Ltd, an emerging innovation-driven pharmaceutical company. Established in 1984, it manufactures and markets nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals and herbal extracts.

He is also the founder chairman of Ayurvet Ltd and AGES Ltd. With many awards and honours in his name, Burman has made his mark not only in the corporate world, but also in philanthropy. He is the chairman of Mobius Foundation, a non-profit organisation working for education, sustainability and the protection of the environment.

In an interview, Burman spoke about matters close to his heart.

How do you feel being given the title of a sustainability crusader?I am honoured to get this grand title and aspire to be deserving of it eventually.

Brilliant Bill Gates Quotes That Will Inspire You To Be Successful

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Words Of Wisdom

28 Oct, 2018

Entrepreneur, visionary, investor, philanthropist - Bill Gates is one of the most inspiring leaders in the world.
On his 63rd birthday, here's a collections of his best quotes that have the net worth of $97 billion, each:

What's Life!

28 Oct, 2018

Bill Gates believes life has a tendency to just happen because of the choices we make. The life you create and design for yourself is going to accumulate from the choices you make over time. Unexpected things can derail the dreams, but staying focused can help you put one dream ahead of another. To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Power Of Knowledge

28 Oct, 2018

Bill Gates spends a lot of time reading. Whether at the office, home, or on the road, he always has a stack of books he's looking forward to reading. As a child, he dreamt a lot. He said that a great deal of that grew out of the fact that he had a chance to read a lot.

Key To Success

28 Oct, 2018

Success makes people arrogant and selfish, but that is not the case with Bill Gates. The 'lousy teacher' success only made him wiser. Gates believes it seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. While he encourages people to celebrate success, he also wants them to understand the importance of heeding the lessons of failure.

Respecting Hardwork

28 Oct, 2018

Bill Gates call himself a 'geek'. As a child, he had failed in some subjects during his exams, but his friend passed in all. Now, his friend is an engineer in Microsoft, and Gates is the owner. Hardwork and diligence took him to where he is today. Gates also indicated that he didn't take a single day off when he was in his twenties.

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You have been contributing a lot in terms of sustainability. What are the lifestyle changes you would like to see in your fight against climate change?Climate change is mostly because of our consumption patterns and lifestyles. Population explosion is stretching the limited resources for health care. Non-renewable resources are getting depleted. The planet cannot support our current lifestyle.

At 76, what still pushes you to do such great work?Various philosophers have taught me a lot. Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story Of My Experiments With Truth, was a lesson for me — the world has enough for its need but not for its greed. Another book, Small is Beautiful, says that the danger of you becoming big may end up destroying an entire planet, just to serve your greed. These are the thoughts that keep me going.

Despite your schedule, how do you manage your mental and physical health?Earlier, I would get disturbed by various things. Then I attended a Vipassana meditation course, which changed my outlook. Now, I can handle pressure with ease and have started seeing issues as a matter of course. I try to look at the problem as an opportunity for improvement. The course taught me to find future solutions, rather than worrying about past problems.

What thoughts would you like to share with the young generation of India?It will be tough for me to put the message in one sentence, but the Bhagavad Gita says: “One should focus on their karma and not the results.” If the efforts are honest, positive results are bound to come. Also, I feel that it is important for all of us to help others more.

What message would you like to give to society?We must be aware of what lies ahead of us. Soon, we will finish earth’s resources and our next generations will be left with nothing. We must understand that small steps taken today can make a big difference tomorrow.

How would you want your legacy to be remembered?The legacy left behind should speak for itself. I have set up the Mobius Foundation, which works for sustainability, and, hopefully, it will carry on and add to existing world-renowned foundations. I hope the foundation will always carry on the objectives that are close to my heart.

Stephen Hawking Leaves Behind His Legacy In The Form Of Books

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The Prolific Author

14 Mar, 2018

Stephen Hawking was a prolific author with a knack for making books on challenging scientific topics engaging to a wide spectrum of readers.
The physicist is best known for his best-selling 1988 classic 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes,' which was intended to help people without a strong scientific background understand key questions of physics and human existence. In it, he discusses the origins of the universe and its future. Among his other books are:
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'George And The Unbreakable Code' And Other Stories

14 Mar, 2018

Written by Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, this was a series of illustrated children's books to explain 'secret keys to the universe' to younger readers. The books deal with complex topics including the Big Bang.
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'My Brief History'

14 Mar, 2018

A very personal memoir published in 2013 in which Hawking deals among other things with his childhood, his evolution as a thinker and scientist, the impact of his ALS diagnosis when he was 21 and the ways in which the prospect of an early death affected his work.
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'The Grand Design'

14 Mar, 2018

Hawking said this 2010 book co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow was intended to address important unanswered questions such as why there is a universe and whether the universe needed a creator and designer. Hawking said his thinking had been influenced by significant advancements in physics that had followed publication of 'A Brief History of Time.'
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'On the Shoulders of Giants'

14 Mar, 2018

Published in 2003, Hawking writes about the great astronomers and physicists who preceded them, presenting in a single volume a vast history of the field that makes heavy use of original papers by Einstein, Copernicus, Newton and many others. Hawking puts each in context and explains their role in altering the course of science as mankind moved out of the Middle Ages.
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